Hamas Says it Reached a Ceasefire Agreement With Witkoff That Includes 'Permanent Ceasefire'
Witkoff called the deal temporary, which Hamas has said was a non-starter
Hamas said in a statement on Wednesday that it reached a ceasefire agreement with U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff that will guarantee:
➤ Full withdrawal of Israeli forces from Gaza
➤ Unimpeded aid flow
➤ Appointment of a technocratic committee assuming administration of the Strip's affairs immediately upon the announcement of the agreement, according to Suppressed News. (The Hamas statement was also reported by Drop Site News.)
Witkoff said at the White House that the deal was temporary, which Hamas has said in the past is a non-starter.
The propaganda in the U.S. media blamed Hamas for blocking a truce, but failed to mention that the group insisted on an end to the fighting — not a temporary deal that would allow Israel to ramp up the massacres once the hostages were released.
Haaretz, a top newspaper in Israel, ran an editorial in March that placed blame squarely on the Israeli government for the Gaza ceasefire’s undoing—challenging the propaganda from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and repeated in the Western media that the collapse was the result of an obdurate Hamas.
The paper quoted a statement from Netanyahu that justified the renewed air and ground campaign inside Gaza by blaming Hamas for its “repeated refusal to release our hostages, as well as its rejection of all the proposals it has received from U.S. Presidential Envoy Steve Witkoff and from the mediators.”
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The paper called such a statement a complete lie and said it needs to be said “loudly and clearly” that Israel and Hamas were supposed to begin negotiations on the Phase 2 of the ceasefire deal—which both parties agreed upon—but “Israel refused.”
The Supressed News X post carried a statement from Hamas:
“In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful Hamas confirms that it is exerting significant efforts to stop the barbaric war on the Gaza Strip, most recently reaching an agreement with U.S. Envoy Steve Witkoff on a general framework that achieves a permanent ceasefire, a complete withdrawal of occupation forces from the Gaza Strip, the unimpeded flow of aid, and a technocratic committee assuming administration of the Strip's affairs immediately upon the announcement of the agreement. The agreement includes the release of ten "israeli" captives and a number of bodies, in exchange for the release of an agreed-upon number of Palestinian prisoners, guaranteed by mediators. The movement is awaiting the final response to this framework.
The move would be a shift from Netanyahu’s comment last week that that U.S. President Donald Trump’s “revolutionary” plan to ethnically cleanse Gaza of Palestinians is now an official condition to end his revamped massacre campaign inside the enclave.
Netanyahu told reporters last week that the entire Gaza Strip will be under the IDF’s control once the fighting ends. He told reporters that he would only agree to a temporary ceasefire in exchange for hostages.
Netanyahu said Wednesday that the IDF killed Mohammed Sinwar, a senior Hamas leader, in a recent air strike on a hospital.
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